From the Internet of Things to the Internet ON Things.

Posted by openPicus | On: Apr 27 2012 | Comments (0)
Yesterday I had a phone interview with Frog Design, among the leading design companies in the world in industrial design, user experience design and many other things. Loved it. The topic of the interview, was the Internet of things a real buzzword nowadays. Instead...

How to control Servo Motors from the web thanks to Flyport!

Posted by openPicus | On: Apr 26 2012 | Comments (3)
Servo motors are special, position controlled, devices. Differently from DC motors, the reference input of the servos is used to control the positioning angle of the engine’s axis In the particular case of the servo used in our app-note, the degree of freedom...

OpenPicus featured on Magazine ElettronicaIN

Posted by openPicus | On: Apr 23 2012 | Comments (0)
It’s official today: on the current issue of the italian magazine ElettronicaIN there’s an introduction to openPicus technology and to the programming of Flyport. We started to cooperate with ElettronicaIN few months ago, they understood the potential...

Democracy and home automation

Posted by openPicus | On: Apr 20 2012 | Comments (3)
Home automation has always been one of the few electronics and information technology fields ordinary folks are all fashinated by as well as pure geeks at heart. We all dream of a home that suits our habits, which communicates with us in a natural, “emphatic”,...

SD Cards with FAT32 on FLYPORT

Posted by openPicus | On: Apr 10 2012 | Comments (3)
The porting of FatFs libraries on FLYPORT modules was done, and we released an application note with two example templates, one for FLYPORT wifi and one for FLYPORT ethernet! Thanks to Rolf Ziegler that has done the first porting of petitFatFs module (a smaller...

M2M forum in Paris

Posted by openPicus | On: Apr 06 2012 | Comments (1)
I’m just back from 2 exciting days in Paris at M2M forum with openPicus reseller for France Giga-Concept. It’s the second time here in less than 1 year and I love the city, so stylish and with special charme. We were showing to the people involved...

Flyport Ethernet introduction

Posted by openPicus | On: Apr 05 2012 | Comments (4)
As you already know FLYPORT family is getting wider: FLYPORT module is available also with Ethernet!Flyport Ethernet and Flyport Wi-Fi are almost twins: there are different connectivity: Flyport WiFi, wireless and Flyport Ethernet, wired.Same pinout of Flyport...

DIY: How to send email with FLYPORT using SSL

Posted by openPicus | On: Apr 03 2012 | Comments (1)
FLYPORT modules can send email both with SSL or without SSL! The SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) permits to encrypt data, so your messages are now safe. In addition, to use the standard email providers is even simple and no specific settings must to be done on email...

Flyport to measure the temperature (BMP085 temperature & pressure sensor)

Posted by openPicus | On: Apr 02 2012 | Comments (5)
The BMP085 is a ultra-low power, high-precision, temperature and pressuresensor. This sensor offers a pressure measuring range of 300 to 1100 hPa with an absolute accuracy of down to 0.03 hPa. The BMP085 is based on piezo-resistive technology for EMC robustness,...

Nest boxes : your prototype shines!

Posted by openPicus | On: Apr 02 2012 | Comments (1)
When we make our electronic prototypes a common problem is: where to find a nice and easy to customize housing for my new jewel? We thought about this when we decided to use a mechanical format for the NEST expansion boards. Today we mounted the Lighting nest...